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Watched JJ Trek again.  Really liked the are you out of your vulcan mind comment by bones, and great going jim now we have no captain and no goddamn first officer to replace him.

That movie was made by Karl Urban, the Kirk actor was annoying and acted like a douche and so did spocklar.

The non phasers were ridiculous the enterprise was a hyped up hotrod with frickin 747 engine turbines on it and an apple store bridge, and the cinematogrpahy was ruined by the lens flares and the shaky cam.  But the overall action and direction were not bad, the writing was passable at times when not laughable like time travel blackholes and redmatter, or Romulans who sound positively mary sue and have Australian accents.

The music was good and the ensemble cast was good if you can get over pine and Quinto acting like sullen jerks for most of the movie.

Oh i loved it i just thought its a mixed bag like most films really or star trek films for that matter, but hey i liked the motionless picture even though i liked Khan as a follow up as well.

Trek V is horrible though it does have some decent moments between the 3 main characters.  Generations and insurrection are pretty junk too, first contact was a good actioner but not really a star trek message film like some of the others.

I think the Old Trek made better films though i can see why they decided to retread that even if i think it is not a very inspired idea.  Maybe better than the next next generation, tv series i heard they had planned, with kirks descendent and a dead federation and a final enterprise brought out of mothballs.

Raiders of the Lost Ark - 10/10

Temple of Doom - 8/10

The Last Crusade - 9/10

Last Crusade is like a flat soda. Still good, but just lifeless. Had a choice between picking up an LD of it or this other movie from 1989...

Batman. Found a shrinkwrapped LD and finally did the shootout I've wanted to do since getting the 2disc DVD. I've always disliked the 5.1 remix for this film and after getting DTS capable I still wasn't satisfied. (Although the DTS mix is not bad at all, it still does not feel right) To my ears the DVD mixes sounded a bit tinny and very subdued. There's little to no low end. The LD proved me right. When a good sounding Dolby Stereo movie gets remixed into 5.1 all the subtleties get lost in the process. On LD the mix is more balanced and has just the right amount of low end for the Keaton punch.

And it was nice to see in the composed 1.85:1 ratio instead of cropped to 1.78:1. I know it's a minute difference, but everything just has more room and if it's they way it was composed, why change it?

You weigh a lot more than 108 balls in the pale moonlight.

But it couldn't be a prequel because Caesar is the child of Cornelius and Zira who don't exist yet..unless this would undo all of the original sequels? I love doing POTA what ifs.

Ziggy Stardust said:

I never really cared for Last Crusade. Maybe because it was too much like Raiders.

That's probably my reason too. I think it is a better movie than Doom, but at least Doom was visually different, and interesting. So I think Doom was a worthy sequel.

Crystal Skull pissed me off for how ugly the film was. The original Indy films had a beauty to them. Gotta tip your hat to Douglas Slocombe's keen eye. Plus any scene that could've looked good had a thick coat of yellow over it.

Lucas seems to have problems with 3rd films.

The movie that never happened was shot by a master of uninteresting cinematography and garish coloring, Kaminski, in a way to imitate and honor Slocombe's original work.

Yeah right. If the movie truly had no CGI and was done just like in the old days (they were referring to the 80's vintage of the first films-not 30's serials) then the two most powerful movie producers would have easily done a down and dirty 35mm production on the cheap and maybe rekindled some of the initial Raiders magic that so captured our imaginations and is so desperately need again.

But no! That would make too much sense! And it wouldn't be as perfectly marketable to every demographic!

And if Connery wasn't going to be in the film then you know it had to not go very well.